Playing my own songs while playing GCII?

You would prbably be best off by disabling the background music and just using winamp. While you can replace the music files, I believe that in game it just loops a track and would get annoying if it just looped a single song. I could be wrong about this though, since it's been forever since using the ingame music.

Yup it does loop the song. Would be nice if we could get the devs to allow M3U playlists as well as the MP3's currently used.

The only work-around is to merge all the songs you want to listen to into a single mp3 file. Not ideal but it does work!

I play my own songs all the time when I play GC2. I'm not sure what the problem is. Just turn off the backround music tabs in the audio menu, and play your own music.

No offense, but man! You really don't like the idea of an ingame audio player don't you?  

I really don't like the idea of pestering the devs for completely pointless pieces of fluff, when there are actual in-game issues that have gone unaddressed since launch almost 2 years ago, and a very ambitious expansion on the horizon, no.

If it served any actual purpose it would be one thing, but an in-game media player is the very definition of frivilous, and completely unneccesary to anyone who knows how to use a computer.

I just wish people had a better sense of priorities.

Whooo slow down man! I dont think there has been a demand in this thread has there? So far we have only said we would like to be able to play in-game without using a seperate player. No pestering of the Devs has taken place at all so i am not sure of why once again you have to resort to belittling a thread because it does not sit in with what you believe we should be asking for!

All anyone has done so far up to your post is answer the original question and open up on it a bit by WISHING we could play our own music in the game. Please if you think there are major issues with this game then take it up with the devs via email or post and stop moaning at other posters for maybe wishing for something a little lower down your list of important extras.

JubJub was referencing another thread where the issue was discussed, and I was vocally opposed to it there. Hence his "you REALLY dont like..." comment. Until that point, I had just been addressing the original post, and saying I didn't understand the problem. You want to play songs while you play, then play songs while you play...there's nothing preventing that. And if you play in windowed mode at the same rez as your desktop, its exactly the same as fullscreen, and your media player comes up over top the game with a single button press, without having to alt-tab out...so there's not even any real convenience issue...just a player education one.

I recall the reason it was dropped to start with was because people were always contacting support about it, using up lots of the support guys' time on something really very trivial. So I wouldn't expect it to come back, particularly when it's easy enough to run your choice of media player in the background and control it (in most cases) via keyboard shortcuts.

or you can just buy a radio.

I changed all the music in my gc game to sadly find out that it just keeps looping everytime a new window opens!(It drove me insane btw) Now i have to reinstall gc2 so i can get the original music back that only served to make me sleepy! The only reason i dont use wmp is that my comp isnt that great and it causes alot of slow down in the game.(Otherwise it runs great with all the backround stuff off) How hard can it be to stop looping music in the game everytime a window opens and just let the song play out!?
Very dissapointing...No wonder there isnt any killer music mods.


*EdiT* Why was music added in the first place if you can only hear the 1st 5seconds of one track all game? It pains me.

Sounds like you've got some sort of issue going on, then. The music should loop the entire track, and should change under certain conditions (war, peace, etc).

I never liked the idea of copying music files to the game directory. That just generates a huge overhead and is redundant to boot. The game doesn't allow playlists, no surprise there - at least I haven't seen a game so far that DOES, unless you count xbox360 with media centre connected.

Winamp, or maybe some more minimalistic player that got ported over from Linux would be the best choice. In your case (hardware limitations), look for lightweight players. Winamp and especially WMP have too much useless features piled on.

I have a pretty pathetic system myself and have never had an issue running winamp in it's base form(no skins) aside GC2. I get slowdown the same on bigger maps with or without it.

Hm, yeah i use wmp with an alienware skin so maybe thats why it eats up the little bit of resources i have when i play.



Yeah im pretty sure it was the kinda of music i changed it to that made me go insane with the 'looping'(stuff like infected muchroom and astral projection). I thought it would work out pretty sweet and still sound spacey but ohwell, even had more crunchy stuff like terrorfakt for wars but omg the looping! lol. I still wish it looped the song without interruptions ofcourse...